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El Jefe is my keyboard
name a.k.a pen name, a.k.a pseudonym. I am neither a chief nor a boss as Wikipediadefines it, although I do think of myself as a realist
manager. I have an MBA which is not in Finance and a full time job as a techy in
HTX.

This blog is not about the cognitive science of
making money. We all know how to make money – work-sleep-work. It’s about
getting started in life post-education, post-partying in your 20's and post-not-planning-about-your-future-self.
It’s about securing a future and trying to live in the illusion called the American Dream and how
my fam and I are trying to achieve it.

WIITFM (What
Is In It For Me)

Much like growing a plant in your patio or backyard, growing
money takes patience, perseverance, re-potting, propagation and then finally seeing
it flourish, hence Plants vs Money - the analogy.

In my professional career, I use verifiable data, real-world
workforce training and expertise to back up my assertions. In Plants vs Money,
I’ll just use the same approach, the realist manager approach. No, it’s not
some MBA jargon, its straight-up talk that’s free from most forms of bullshit.

I am in my 30's, I have a young fam and I have realized that
most people do not talk about how they make their money grow but talk about how
they make their plants grow, they talk about how much money they have but not
about how many plants they have growing in their patios and backyards.

I am going to talk about my journey and how I am working
towards attaining that American
Dream, since I am not from HTX, not even from the US. I hail from a far-far
land called India.

In Plants vs Money you will read nothing new about either plants
or money that hasn’t been written over and over again in the personal
finance space of the internet blogging world. However, you will learn about the
things I have figured out, I have learnt by my own financial mistakes and how I
have corrected them, and I will lay it out for you. What you do with that
information is yours to keep non-copyrighted.

Having said that, keep in mind that I am not a financial
guru, I am anonymous. So everything I write could be a falsified. But I do have
a green thumb and I do grow plants.

There is a clear gap between how to achieve this American
Dream and how it has drifted too far from the reality that the Founding Fathers
had envisioned. My hope is to lessen this gap for me and you, that’s my value
prop.

Why am I anonymous?

Like you, I like my privacy.

I may or may not be making up all of this shit, and being anonymous
helps out there.

I may or may not use French
while writing, and being anonymous helps out there as well.

I may or may not post my actual financial data, and being anonymous
helps out there as well.

Keeping it real has it pitfalls, and being anonymous helps
out there as well.

Disclosure and
Disclaimer

Plants vs Money is not a marketing platform. I will however,
add some relevant affiliate links into our conversations and the content I
create to keep this blog/website up and running.

Get over it, that’s how the cookie crumbles. Else get outta here.

Thanks Yawl!

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